The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for the Adams County sheriff, finding an inmate was unable to make
a prima facie case for negligence. The inmate sued after contracting a methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus –
or MRSA – infection after visiting the hospital.

A man convicted of rape based on DNA evidence and his admission that he had sex with the victim failed to prove to the Indiana
Court of Appeals that he was denied a fair trial due to the admission of hearsay testimony and a sustained objection to an
attempt to refresh the victim’s memory.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reinstated an insurer’s case against contractors who built a Plymouth church gymnasium
addition in 2008 in which the basketball court floor was ruined when a frozen sprinkler burst eight months later.

The Indiana Court of Appeals disagrees with the state Department of Child Services that fact-finding and dispositional hearings
in a child in need of services case are interchangeable. The appellate panel has ruled a Marion County father’s due
process rights were denied because he didn’t receive the opportunity for a fact-finding hearing.

The state’s intermediate appellate court has reversed a southern Indiana judge’s ruling that a boyfriend should
retain visitation rights over an ex-girlfriend’s child. It ruled that the finding is contrary to law because lawmakers
didn’t allow for that type of circumstance to warrant visitation.

Two private defense lawyers in Marion County failed to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that they should be retroactively
appointed by the Marion County Public Defender Agency and compensated for their legal work on a case that has an intricate
maze of attorney representation over the course of five years.

Less than three months after the Indiana Supreme Court issued a decision about sports injury cases, the state’s intermediate
appellate court is now applying the new rule regarding how liability should be determined.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed a juvenile court’s order of restitution, stating the court failed to investigate
the young man’s ability to pay, and that the damage amount could not be determined to be reasonable. Judge Melissa S.
May wrote an eight-page separate opinion stating that the trial court’s many errors hampered the COA’s ability
to perform its review of the case.

In two cases involving the parental privilege defense, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a teacher who “flicked”
a special education student’s tongue and against a father hit his daughter numerous times with a belt.

Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard is dealing with a painful pinched nerve in his neck but is working
on managing the pain and has not been hospitalized as a result of the condition, said Supreme Court Public Information Officer
Kathryn Dolan.

An Indiana Court of Appeals judge dissented from the majority’s holding that two insurers were financially responsible
for the damages caused by a fractured storm pipe and subsequent flooding of a school. The judge believed that only one of
the responsible party’s insurers had to pay for the property damage.

After the juvenile court adjudicated two minor children as children in need of services following their mother’s admission
to allegations filed by the Indiana Department of Child Services, the majority of a Court of Appeals panel today reversed
and remanded that finding in favor of the stepfather, who denied the allegations and asked for a fact-finding hearing. One
Court of Appeals judge dissented, writing that she disagreed that the trial court violated the stepfather’s right to
due process in this case.

The Indiana Court of Appeals addressed for the first time today the admissibility of DNA evidence when a defendant can’t
be excluded from a possibly infinite number of people matching the crime-scene DNA.

The Indiana Court of Appeals split on whether a defendant’s operating while intoxicated charges should have been dismissed
because the charging information didn’t let the man know what vehicle he needed to defend against operating.